Does Hiv Destroy B Cells

1. What will happen to the person if their B-cells are taken out of the immune system cascade, but the macrophage remains? In other words they no longer function as programmed?2. what will happen to the person if thier marcrophages are no longer...

...Institutes of Health, have shown that a similar type of exhaustion strikes another important brigade of immune system soldiers: the B cells that make virus-fighting proteins called antibodies. In most HIV-infected individuals not receiving...
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...response. Now, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) report for the first time that B cells -- the antibody-producing cells of the immune system -- help ferry HIV throughout the blood and can likely...
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...HIV's most insidious properties is its ability to influence virtually every part of the human immune system. Antibody-producing B cells, for example, begin to malfunction early after people become infected with HIV, for reasons that have been...
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Can someone please tell me what does the % of CD4's mean? I just received my results and forgot to ask the Doctor that question. I am sort of new here and I see how you guys are like one big family. My numbers are a little scary to me, so I can...
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...have immunopotentiating properties. It is an in vivo stimulator of natural killer cells, macrophage-mediated cytotoxicity and B cell response. MM-1 is an Antiviral and Immunopotentiating drug which has very low toxicity and a wide safety margin....
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...have immunopotentiating properties. It is an in vivo stimulator of natural killer cells, macrophage-mediated cytotoxicity and B cell response. MM-1 is an Antiviral and Immunopotentiating drug which has very low toxicity and a wide safety margin....
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